I Am Love (2009)
The wealthy Recchi family are first and second-generation textile manufacturers in Milan. Tancredi Recchi and his wife Emma are hosting a formal dinner party for Tancredi’s ailing but still-formidable father, Edoardo Sr., patriarch and founder of the family business, who is celebrating his birthday. As the many servants bustle about, the family note with disappointment the news that Edoardo Jr., Tancredi and Emma’s eldest son, lost a competition the day of his grandfather’s birthday. Edoardo Jr. arrives from that competition, having informed the family that he has invited a girlfriend. She is Eva, of the prominent Ugolini family, whom he plans to marry. Edoardo Jr.’s young adult siblings, Gianluca and Elisabetta, complain of yet again being served “ukha”, Edoardo Jr.’s favourite dish, a special soup his mother Emma, who is Russian by birth, has made for him since childhood. The grandfather announces he is passing the family business to his son, Tancredi, who has long worked with him, and also, unexpectedly, to Edoardo Jr.
At the dinner, Elisabetta, who attends school in London, presents her grandfather with one of her artworks, a photograph, despite a tradition of presenting one another paintings. He is disappointed, but encouraged by his glamorous wife Allegra “Rori” Recchi to gloss over his disappointment. Later during the birthday celebration, Edoardo Jr. receives a surprise visit from Antonio, the chef who defeated him in the competition earlier that day. Antonio brings a beautiful cake as a gift, and Edoardo, flattered by the gesture, introduces him to his mother.
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Cast:  Tilda SwintonEmma Recchi  Flavio ParentiEdoardo Recchi Junior  Edoardo GabbrielliniAntonio Biscaglia  Alba RohrwacherElisabetta Recchi |
The wealthy Recchi family are first and second-generation textile manufacturers in Milan. Tancredi Recchi and his wife Emma are hosting a formal dinner party for Tancredi’s ailing but still-formidable father, Edoardo Sr., patriarch and founder of the family business, who is celebrating his birthday. As the many servants bustle about, the family note with disappointment the news that Edoardo Jr., Tancredi and Emma’s eldest son, lost a competition the day of his grandfather’s birthday. Edoardo Jr. arrives from that competition, having informed the family that he has invited a girlfriend. She is Eva, of the prominent Ugolini family, whom he plans to marry. Edoardo Jr.’s young adult siblings, Gianluca and Elisabetta, complain of yet again being served “ukha”, Edoardo Jr.’s favourite dish, a special soup his mother Emma, who is Russian by birth, has made for him since childhood. The grandfather announces he is passing the family business to his son, Tancredi, who has long worked with him, and also, unexpectedly, to Edoardo Jr.
At the dinner, Elisabetta, who attends school in London, presents her grandfather with one of her artworks, a photograph, despite a tradition of presenting one another paintings. He is disappointed, but encouraged by his glamorous wife Allegra “Rori” Recchi to gloss over his disappointment. Later during the birthday celebration, Edoardo Jr. receives a surprise visit from Antonio, the chef who defeated him in the competition earlier that day. Antonio brings a beautiful cake as a gift, and Edoardo, flattered by the gesture, introduces him to his mother.
